"R. A. Hettinga" wrote:
At 9:48 PM + on 12/11/00, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it"
Thank you. It works in all dimensions, and, thus it's topological, right?
Indeed.
Cheers,
Ben.
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On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity.
No question about it. The term also doesn't mean a whole lot when applied
as-is in the many instances it is on
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, R. A. Hettinga wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it"
Thank you. It works in all dimensions, and, thus it's topological, right?
Topology does not deal with dimension or distance. Pure geometry. Not even
affine or
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By the way, one topological aspect of a geodesic dome, to go
Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity.
No question about it. The term also doesn't mean a whole lot when applied
as-is
At 7:42 PM + 12/12/00, Ben Laurie wrote:
Sampo A Syreeni wrote:
On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Ben Laurie wrote:
Chambers defines geodesic as "the shortest line on a surface between two
points on it" and that is precisely the meaning in general relativity.
No question about it. The term also
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On Fri, 8 Dec 2000, Ray Dillinger wrote:
(RAH might have called it a geodesic political culture if he hadn't got
this
Sampo A Syreeni [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Just by the way, how widespread is this use of the word 'geodesic'?
Not very, I think. It seems it's RAH's specialty. It's quite poetic,
actually.
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